Monday, February 6, 2012

One More Peep Out Of Morgan Stanley Employees And Next Year’s Bonuses Will Be Determined By IQ Test (Results Posted In Lobby)


Bess Levin, Dealbreaker’s Doyenne of Dish writes: Gorman doesn’t fit the image of a Wall Street titan. Notwithstanding his $10.5 million pay package, he shows up at black-tie events in a rumpled tuxedo he bought as a business- school student in the 1980s. He keeps supplies of Vegemite — a favorite Australian food that’s made from yeast extract — in the executive kitchen and eats it on toast. He often walks home from his Times Square office to his Upper East Side townhouse and was spotted on one weekend in a track suit and sneakers waiting in line at the post office. The 6-foot-3-inch (1.9-meter), 195-pound (88-kilogram) Gorman’s favorite pastimes include reading John le Carre spy novels and taking boxing lessons weekly at his gym…Gorman is the sixth of 10 children born to Melbourne engineer Kevin Gorman. His father, now 90, was home-schooled until age 14 because he lived in the Australian outback, far from any town. Kevin Gorman once had each of his children take an IQ test, James says. He posted the results in the family’s living room, with each child’s score and expected occupation…

Read more at http://dealbreaker.com/2012/02/one-more-peep-out-of-morgan-stanley-employees-and-next-years-bonuses-will-be-determined-by-iq-test-results-posted-in-lobby/

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